XPost: alt.non.racism, rec.arts.tv, soc.culture.african.american   
   From: no_offline_contact@example.com   
      
   On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 02:08:42 +0000   
   BTR1701  wrote:   
      
   > On Feb 21, 2024 at 10:15:11 PM PST, "The Horny Goat"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:06:30 +0000, BTR1701  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On Feb 21, 2024 at 4:00:23 PM PST, "anim8rfsk"    
   > >> wrote:   
   > >>>  BTR1701  wrote:   
   > >>>>   On Feb 21, 2024 at 9:38:53 AM PST, "Ubiquitous"   
   > >>>>  wrote:   
   > >>>>>   An MSNBC guest claimed on Monday that white people had stolen   
   > >>>>> every form of   
   > >>>>>   music in existence-- with the exception of classical music--   
   > >>>>> from black people.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>   Sure. Because all the European peoples never had music before   
   > >>>> they met black   
   > >>>  people. Riiigghht.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>   This is just more of the recent trend on social media where   
   > >>>> blacks are   
   > >>>  claiming every cultural and scientific achievement in history   
   > >>> were really done   
   > >>>  by black people.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>   The works of Shakespeare? Ghost-written by a black woman.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>   Newton's Laws of Motion? Stolen by Newton from the work of a   
   > >>>> black guy.   
   > >>>   
   > >>>  Newton was a black guy. Remember your Doctor Who?   
   > >>>   
   > >>>>   All music everywhere? Invented by blacks.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>   Electricity? Actually discovered by blacks.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>   Einstein? White guy taking credit for black math.   
   > >>>   
   > >>>  All spaceflight equations at NASA were done by black women in   
   > >>> the basement.   
   > >>   
   > >> And a black man was the first to walk on the moon. (Not kidding.   
   > >> They actually   
   > >> seriously say this.   
   > >>   
   > >> Listen to this one claim blacks invented everything-- the car, the   
   > >> computer, toilets-- there's nothing they didn't invent.   
   > >>   
   > >> https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1760224013375111449?s=20   
   > >>   
   > > This Wiki page has photos of all the Apollo astronauts - the ones   
   > > that walked on the Moon as well as the ones that didn't. Which is   
   > > the black one? (It sure as hell isn't Neil Armstrong!)   
   > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts   
   > >   
   > > As for the human "computers" - they definitely contributed (and were   
   > > NOT all black) but anybody who claims they were the entire NASA   
   > > computing effort? - well I want some of what they've been smoking!   
   > >   
   > > But for sure it wasn't a black who invented basketball though I'd   
   > > bet there are plenty who wish that one had!   
   >   
   > One of the common themes in posts all over the Twitters and the   
   > Facebook is "Africa built Europe!" And "Africa built America!"   
   >   
   There is no doubt that people of African descent had a hand in building   
   America, in the form of both slaves and employees working in   
   agriculture, railroad construction and such things. But there was   
   precious little invention or creativity in those efforts that I can   
   see. They worked for white people that figured out what work had to   
   be done and how to do it and then supplied basic grunt labour. There   
   may be the odd exception to that in the form of the occasional black   
   engineer but I think the general trend was very much as I've said.   
      
   I'm going to need some convincing to believe that blacks were a   
   significant part of the labour force in building Europe.   
      
   > If you really want to enrage them, just respond, "Okay, so when is   
   > Africa going to get around to building Africa?"   
   >   
   As Bruce Willis said during one gun battle: "Ooh, that's going to leave   
   a mark!"   
      
      
      
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